Patent Grant
12236737
The present invention relates to a medium processing device and a cash handling device and, for example, is appropriate for an application to an automatic teller machine (ATM) performing a desired transaction by allowing a user to input bills and coins.
Conventionally, in an automatic teller machine and the like used by a financial organization and the like, for example, a method of allowing a user to input cash such as bills, coins, and the like and allowing a user to withdraw cash in accordance with transaction details with the user is in wide use. Among such automatic teller machines, for example, there is a type in which a medium processing device performing a process relating to coins is included inside. The medium processing device, for example, includes a depositing/dispensing unit that gives/receives coins to/from a user, a separation unit that separates integrated coins one by one, a conveyance unit that conveys coins, an identifying unit (also referred to as a recognition unit) that identifies a coin type, authenticity, and the like of an input coin, a housing unit that houses coins sorted by denomination, and the like.
In such a medium processing device, an optical sensor detecting coins, foreign materials, and the like inside the depositing/dispensing unit may be disposed in the depositing/dispensing unit. In addition, in the depositing/dispensing unit, a hole portion for a sensor, which transmits light of the sensor, that is essential for the function is appropriately formed (for example, see Patent Literature 1).
Patent Literature 1: JP H10-255104A
However, there are cases in which a foreign material enters the medium processing device from the depositing/dispensing unit through a gap such as the hole portion for the sensor or the like. This may cause miscalculation or cause the drive unit to stop by applying a load thereto, and there is possibility that reliability will not be maintained.
The present invention is in consideration of the points described above and proposes a medium processing device and a cash handling device capable of maintaining reliability.
In order to solve such a problem, in a medium processing device according to the present invention, a depositing/dispensing unit that has a feeding unit into which media are fed and a shutter opening/closing the feeding unit and a foreign material storage unit that is disposed on a side opposite to the feeding unit with a gap formed in the depositing/dispensing unit interposed therebetween and stores foreign materials that have entered from the gap are disposed.
In addition, in a cash handling device according to the present invention, an operation unit that accepts a user's operation and the medium processing device described above are disposed.
According to the present invention, foreign materials that have entered a gap from a space storing media can be stored by the foreign material storage unit, and the foreign materials can be prevented from entering each part inside the medium processing device.
Advantageous Effects of Invention
According to the present invention, a medium processing device and a cash handling device capable of maintaining reliability can be realized.
Hereinafter, embodiments for performing the invention (hereinafter referred to as embodiments) will be described with reference to the drawings.
As shown from the exterior illustrated in
In the casing 2, a reception unit 3 is disposed at a place at which input of a bill, an operation using a touch panel, and the like can be easily performed in a state in which a user faces the front of the casing 2. In the reception unit 3, a bankbook entrance/exit port 4, a card entrance/exit port 5, a coin depositing/dispensing port 6, a bill depositing/dispensing port 7, an operation display unit 8, and the like are disposed, and the reception unit 3 directly exchanges, for example, cash, a card, or the like with a user and receives a notification of information about a transaction and an operation instruction.
The bankbook entrance/exit port 4 is a part into which a bankbook is inserted and that discharged from the bankbook. On an inner side of the bankbook entrance/exit port 4, a bankbook processing unit (not illustrated) that reads magnetic information from a magnetic recording part disposed on a back cover or the like of a bankbook and records details of a transaction in the bankbook is disposed. The card entrance/exit port 5 is a part into or from which various cards such as a cash card and the like are inserted or discharged. On an inner side of the card entrance/exit port 5, a card processing unit (not illustrated) that reads an account number and the like, which are magnetically recorded on various cards, is disposed.
The coin depositing/dispensing port 6 is a part into which coins deposited by a user are inserted and to which coins dispensed to a user are discharged. The bill depositing/dispensing port 7 is a part into which bills deposited by a user are put and from which bills dispensed to a user are discharged. Each of the coin depositing/dispensing port 6 and the bill depositing/dispensing port 7 is opened or closed by driving a shutter. The operation display unit 8 is a touch panel serving as an operation unit in which a liquid crystal display panel displaying an operation screen, transaction details, and the like at the time of a transaction and a touch sensor detecting a user's input operation are integrated.
Hereinafter, a side of the automatic teller machine 1 that is faced by a user will be referred to as the front, and a side opposite thereto will be referred to as the rear, the left and right sides as seen by a user facing the front will be respectively referred to as the left and right sides, and an upper side and a lower side are further defined in description.
Inside the casing 2, a main control unit 9 that performs overall control of the automatic teller machine 1, a coin processing device 10 that performs various processes relating to coins that are transaction targets, a bill processing device (not illustrated) that performs various processes relating to bills, and the like are disposed. The main control unit 9 is mainly composed of a central processing unit (CPU) that is not illustrated and reads a predetermined program from a read only memory (ROM), a flash memory, or the like that are not illustrated and executes the predetermined program, thereby performing various processes such as a depositing process, a dispensing process, and the like. In addition, the main control unit 9 has inside it a storage unit that is formed from a random access memory (RAM), a hard disk drive, a flash memory, and the like and stores various kinds of information in this storage unit.
The coin processing device 10 is formed in a shape similar to a rectangular parallelepiped as a whole and is attached to the casing 2 through a slide rail that is not illustrated in the drawing. In addition, on a front face side or a rear face side of the casing 2, a door (not illustrated) that can be opened or closed is disposed. For this reason, in a case in which a maintenance operation or the like is performed, the automatic teller machine 1, after opening a door disposed on the front face side or the rear face side of the casing 2, causes the coin processing device 10 to slide to the front or the rear, thereby causing the coin processing device 10 to be positioned outside the casing 2 or to be housed inside the casing 2.
As shown in a schematic right-side view illustrated in
Inside the coin processing device casing 11, a depositing/dispensing unit 13, a chute unit 14, an upper separation unit 15, a recognition and conveyance unit 16, a delivery unit 17, a pin belt conveyance unit 18, 6 stacker units 21, a dispensing conveyance unit 22, and a temporary storage unit 23 are disposed relatively upward or near the center. In addition, inside the coin processing device casing 11, a coin control unit 12, a supplementary recovery storage 24, a first supplementary rejection storage 25, a second supplementary rejection storage 26, a rejection storage 27, a lost acquisition storage 28, and a lower separation unit 29 are disposed on a relatively lower side.
Similar to the main control unit 9, the coin control unit 12 is mainly composed of a CPU that is not illustrated and reads a predetermined program from a ROM, a flash memory, or the like that is not illustrated and executes the predetermined program, thereby performing various processes such as a depositing process, a dispensing process, and the like to perform overall control of the coin processing device 10. In addition, the coin control unit 12 has inside of it a storage unit formed from a RAM, a flash memory, and the like and causes this storage unit to store various kinds of information.
By taking/giving coins from/to a user, the depositing/dispensing unit 13 allows the user to deposit the coins or allows the user to withdraw the coins. The depositing/dispensing unit 13 has a container 13A that has an opening portion on an upper side and houses coins, a shutter 13B that opens or closes the opening portion, a sensor (not illustrated) that detects presence/absence of coins inside the container 13A, and the like.
When coins are put into the container 13A by a user in a state in which the shutter 13B is slidably moved to a rear side to open as illustrated in
The upper separation unit 15 is composed of an integration separation part 15A that is a part occupying a relatively large volume on a lower side and a separation conveyance part 15B that is formed to protrude from the integration separation part 15A to the upper side. This upper separation unit 15 integrates coins in the integration separation part 15A, separates these coins one by one, conveys the coins upward by the separation conveyance part 15B, further conveys the coins along the conveyance path backward, and delivers the coins to the recognition and conveyance unit 16.
The recognition and conveyance unit 16 is positioned on the right side of the chute unit 14, images a coin while conveying it, and determines whether or not the coin can be handled on the basis of a denomination, authenticity, a degree of damage, or the like of the coin based on an acquired image signal. In addition, the recognition and conveyance unit 16 notifies of an acquired determination result to the coin control unit 12 as a result of recognition of the coin and delivers the coin to the delivery unit 17. The delivery unit 17 delivers the coin received from the recognition and conveyance unit 16 to the pin belt conveyance unit 18.
The pin belt conveyance unit 18 surrounds a front-side lower part, a lower side, a rear side, and an upper side of the stacker units 21 respectively with a front-pin belt conveyance unit 18F, a lower-pin belt conveyance unit 18L, a rear-pin belt conveyance unit 18R, and an upper-pin belt conveyance unit 18U, thereby forming a conveyance path that is a path along which coins are conveyed. The pin belt conveyance unit 18 is composed of a conveyance guide that is brought into contact with a surface of a coin and guides the coin to advance along a conveyance path and a pin belt that travels along the entire conveyance path. In this pin belt, a pin that is brought into contact with a tail side of a coin and is used for pressing the coin in a conveyance direction is disposed. By causing the pin belt to travel, the pin belt conveyance unit 18 conveys a coin received from the delivery unit 17 along the conveyance path and discharges the coin to the inside of the container 13A of the depositing/dispensing unit 13.
In addition, in the pin belt conveyance unit 18, branching parts 19 that cause the conveyance path of coins to branch are disposed at a plurality of places disposed in a front-side lower part and on a lower side of the stacker units 21. On the left side of each branching part 19, a guide part 30 that guides coins is disposed.
Each branching part 19 has a guide plate that can rotate, an actuator, and the like (none thereof is illustrated) and, by rotating the guide plate on the basis of control of the coin control unit 12, switching between advancing coins along the pin belt conveyance unit 18 and branching coins to each guide part 30 is performed. Each guide part 30 causes a coin to advance to the supplementary recovery storage 24, the first supplementary rejection storage 25 or the second supplementary rejection storage 26, the temporary storage unit 23, the rejection storage 27, the lost acquisition storage 28, and the like.
Furthermore, in the pin belt conveyance unit 18, stacker branching parts 20 are disposed at 6 places above the 6 stacker units 21. On the left side of each stacker branching part 20, a guide part 31 that guides coins to the stacker unit 21 is disposed.
Each stacker branching part 20 is configured similar to each branching part 19, and, by rotating the guide plate on the basis of control of the coin control unit 12, switching between causing coins to advance along the pin belt conveyance unit 18 and causing coins to branch to each stacker unit 21 is performed.
Each stacker unit 21 has a guide part 31 that is associated with a coin of a predetermined type and is disposed on an upper side, an integration part 32 that integrates coins to be piled with overlapping each other in a vertical direction on a lower side of the guide part 31, and a feed-out part 33 that feeds out coins from a lower side of the integration part 32. When coins conveyed by the pin belt conveyance unit 18 are received from the stacker branching part 20, this stacker unit 21 guides the coins to the integration part 32 to be integrated using the guide part 31. In addition, the stacker unit 21 feeds out coins integrated in the integration part 32 one by one using the feed-out part 33 on the basis of control of the coin control unit 12 and causes the coins to fall into the dispensing conveyance unit 22 or the temporary storage unit 23 disposed on the lower side.
The dispensing conveyance unit 22 is positioned on the right side of the pin belt conveyance unit 18, in other words, on a front side of a sheet face of
The temporary storage unit 23 is configured such that the bottom is forwardly inclined upward, and left and right side plates are formed in a triangle shape, has a space housing coin formed inside thereof, and has a belt conveyance mechanism built on the bottom therein. For this reason, the temporary storage unit 23 places or integrates coins fed out from the stacker unit 21 and coins conveyed from the dispensing conveyance unit 22 on a belt disposed in the internal space. In addition, by causing an upper part of the belt to travel to be forwardly inclined upward in a state in which coins are placed or integrated on the belt, the temporary storage unit 23 feeds out the coins to the upper separation unit 15 disposed on the front side and causes the coins to fall into the inside thereof.
The supplementary recovery storage 24 has an integration part that integrates coins inside thereof, a conveyance mechanism that conveys coins integrated in the integration part, and the like. This supplementary recovery storage 24 integrates coins guided by the guide part 30, feeds out the coins integrated inside to the front side, and delivers the coins to the lower separation unit 29. Each of the first supplementary rejection storage 25 and the second supplementary rejection storage 26 has a space in which coins are integrated inside and integrates coins guided by the guide part 30. Each of the rejection storage 27 and the lost acquisition storage 28 has a space in which coins are integrated inside thereof and integrates coins guided by the guide part 30.
The lower separation unit 29 is disposed at a position adjacent to a rear side of the supplementary recovery storage 24. Although this lower separation unit 29 has a configuration similar to the upper separation unit 15, an installation direction with respect to the coin processing device casing 11 is different from that of the upper separation unit 15. This lower separation unit 29 is composed of an integration separation part 29A and a separation conveyance part 29B that respectively correspond to the integration separation part 15A and the separation conveyance part 15B. The lower separation unit 29 receives coins from the supplementary recovery storage 24 and integrates the coins inside thereof, separates the integrated coins one by one and conveys the coins to the upper side one by one, and discharges the coins to the inside of the temporary storage unit 23.
Next, conveyance, integration, and the like of coins in various processes accompanying conveyance of coins in the coin processing device 10, that is, a depositing process, a dispensing process, and the like will be described. Here, each process performed in the coin processing device 10 in a case in which a depositing transaction and a dispensing transaction are performed between the automatic teller machine 1 and a user will be described.
In a case in which a depositing transaction is performed between the automatic teller machine 1 (
At this time, the coin processing device 10 totals input amounts on the basis of results of recognition of coins using the recognition conveyance unit 16, displays the total on the operation display unit 8 (
In the depositing and housing process of the later stage, the coin processing device 10 conveys coins to the stacker unit 21 to be integrated therein from the temporary storage unit 23 sequentially through the upper separation unit 15, the recognition conveyance unit 16, the delivery unit 17, the pin belt conveyance unit 18, and the stacker branching parts 20. At this time, the coin processing device 10 conveys the coin to the stacker unit 21 according to the type of the coin on the basis of results of recognition of coins using the recognition conveyance unit 16.
In a case in which a dispensing transaction with a user is performed in the automatic teller machine 1 (
In addition, the coin processing device 10 is configured to perform a supplementing process of supplementing coins from the supplementary recovery storage 24 to the stacker units 21, a recovering process of recovering coins from the stacker units 21 to the supplementary recovery storage 24, and the like in addition to the depositing process and the dispensing process.
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In addition, in the rear-side plate 13d, a shutter opposing part 13ds that is bent from the upper end of the inclination part 13di to be in a horizontal direction and extends to the rear side is disposed. In the shutter opposing part 13ds, at a place facing a shutter protrusion part 13Bp (to be described below) of the shutter 13B, a shutter opposing part groove 34 is engraved in a forward/backward direction from a front end to a rear end with a predetermined gap formed in a leftward/rightward direction. In accordance with this, the shutter 13B and the shutter opposing part 13ds are engaged with each other in a non-contacting state in accordance with the shutter protrusion part 13Bp entering into the shutter opposing part groove 34, and a so-called nesting structure is formed in a widthwise direction (the leftward/rightward direction). A gap between the shutter 13B and the shutter opposing part 13ds is formed to be narrower than a minimal coin that is a coin of which a size is the smallest among coins handled in the automatic teller machine 1. In accordance with this, the shutter 13B moves in a forward/backward direction without being into contact with the shutter opposing part 13ds, and penetration of a coin into between the shutter 13B and the shutter opposing part 13ds is prevented.
Furthermore, in the depositing/dispensing unit 13, a hand detecting sensor of an optical type (not illustrated) that detects whether a user's hand is inserted into the container 13A is disposed. For this reason, as illustrated in
In addition, as illustrated in
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In this way, the shutter 13B and the shutter opposing part 13ds of the container 13A are engaged with each other in a non-contacting state while forming a nesting structure. For this reason, between the shutter 13B and the shutter opposing part 13ds, the shutter housing part gap SP that is a slight space in the forward/backward direction and is an essential functional gap for allowing the shutter 13B to move without being in contact with the container 13A is formed. This shutter housing part gap SP is formed to be narrower than the minimal coin. However, when a foreign material FS such as a clip, a pin, a rubber band, a piece of paper, a waste thread, a tape, an adhesive, or the like is put into the container 13A together with regular coins, there is a possibility that the foreign material FS passes through the shutter housing part gap SP from the coin integration space 13C side (the front side) and moves to a rear side from the rear end of the shutter opposing part 13ds.
In addition, there is a possibility that a foreign material FS moves up to a rear side of the rear-side plate 13d from the coin integration space 13C side (the front side) through the sensor hole portion 38 other than the shutter housing part gap SP, in other words, up to the outside of the coin integration space 13C.
As illustrated in
For this reason, in the case of a normal operation, in accordance with the customer service unit 36 becoming a customer service unit closed state as illustrated in
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For example, the storage unit 42 is composed of a thin-plate shaped resin film that is transparent and bendable such as Mylar (registered trademark), has an approximate box shape of which an upper face is open as a whole, and has a storage unit bottom plate 42D, a storage unit rear-side plate 42B, a storage unit inner-side left plate 42LR, a storage unit outer-side left plate 42LL, and a storage unit front-side plate 42F. In addition, in the storage unit 42, in a space surrounded by the storage unit bottom plate 42D, the storage unit rear-side plate 42B, the storage unit inner-side left plate 42LR, the storage unit outer-side left plate 42LL, the storage unit front-side plate 42F, and a support unit right-side plate 44R of the support unit 44, a foreign material storage space 42S housing foreign materials FS is formed. Hereinafter, the storage unit rear-side plate 42B, the storage unit inner-side left plate 42LR, the storage unit outer-side left plate 42LL, and the storage unit front-side plate 42F that stands in a vertical direction from the storage unit bottom plate 42D will be collectively referred to as a wall part.
The storage unit bottom plate 42D is composed of a storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR and a storage unit bottom plate left-side part 42DL and forms a bottom face of the storage unit 42. The storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR has a rectangular shape that extends in a horizontal direction and is long in a leftward/rightward direction in the plan view, has a length in the leftward/rightward direction that is about ⅔ of a length of the storage unit 42 in the leftward/rightward direction, and is disposed on the right side of the storage unit 42. The storage unit bottom plate left-side part 42DL has a rectangular shape that extends in a horizontal direction and is long in a leftward/rightward direction in the plan view, has a length in the leftward/rightward direction that is about ⅓ of a length of the storage unit 42 in the leftward/rightward direction, and is disposed on the left side on an upper side of the storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR, in other words, on the left side of the storage unit 42.
The storage unit rear-side plate 42B is composed of a storage unit rear-side plate right part 42BR and a storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part 42BL and forms a rear side face of the storage unit 42. The storage unit rear-side plate right part 42BR is along the vertical direction and is bent from a rear end of the storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR in an upward direction at right angles to the storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR. This storage unit rear-side plate right part 42BR has a length in a leftward/rightward direction that is about 2/3 of a length of the storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR in the leftward/rightward direction and is disposed on a right side of the storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR.
The storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part 42BL as an opening/closing unit is along a vertical direction and is bent from a rear end of a storage unit outer-side left plate 42LL to be described below in a rightward direction at right angles to the storage unit outer-side left plate 42LL. This storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part 42BL has a shape acquired by rotating a shape of letter “L” viewed from the rear face clockwise by 90 degrees and is rotatable clockwise or counterclockwise on the plan view around a storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing shaft 42BLa as an axis along the vertical direction that is a connection portion with the storage unit outer-side left plate 42LL.
At a lower end of a right end of the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part 42BL, a storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI is formed. The storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI as a fixing part has a shape acquired by rotating a letter “T” viewed from the rear face by 180 degrees and protrudes to the lower side. In the case of at the time of a normal operation of the coin processing device 10, the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI comes into the storage unit closed state in accordance with the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI being locked into an insertion part storage holding part 44DI of the support unit 44, whereby foreign materials FS are stored in the storage unit 42. On the other hand, in a case in which a maintenance operation for eliminating foreign materials FS stored in the storage unit 42 or the like is performed, in accordance with the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI being gripped by a maintenance staff and is drawn to the rear side, the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI is excluded from the insertion part storage holding part 44DI of the support unit 44, the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part 42BL rotates counterclockwise in the plan view around the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing shaft 42BLa to cause the storage unit to be in an open state, and accordingly, a portion of the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part 42BL in the foreign material storage space 42S is exposed to the outside. In this way, the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part 42BL opens or closes the foreign material storage space 42S.
The storage unit inner-side left plate 42LR is disposed along the vertical direction, is bent from the left end of the storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR in an upward direction at right angles to the storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR, and has an upper end connected to a right end of the storage unit bottom plate left-side part 42DL. The storage unit outer-side left plate 42LL is disposed along the vertical direction, is bent in an upward direction from the left end of the storage unit bottom plate left-side part 42DL at right angles to the storage unit outer-side left plate 42LL, and forms a left side face of the storage unit 42.
The storage unit front-side plate 42F is composed of a storage unit front-side plate lower side part 42FD and a storage unit front-side plate inclination part 42FI and forms a front side face of the storage unit 42. The storage unit front-side plate lower side part 42FD is disposed along the vertical direction and is bent from a rear end of the storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR in an upward direction at right angles to the storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR. This storage unit front-side plate lower side part 42FD is formed from a left end to a right end of the storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR.
The storage unit front-side plate inclination part 42FI is bent to be forwardly inclined upward such that it is inclined from an upper end of the storage unit front-side plate lower side part 42FD and a rear end of the storage unit bottom plate left-side part 42DL toward a front side that is the shutter opposing part 13ds side with respect to the vertical direction. A front end of the storage unit front-side plate inclination part 42FI becomes a storage unit front-side plate inclination part front end 42FIe. As illustrated in
The support unit 44 is configured by performing metal plate processing such as punching, bending, and the like on a plate made of metal having a predetermined thickness and has a support unit bottom plate 44D, support unit right-side plate 44R, a support unit left-side plate 44L, and a support unit front-side plate 44F. This support unit 44 has a part fixed to the container 13A and is positioned on a lower side of the storage unit 42 as a whole, thereby supporting the storage unit 42 from the lower side to maintain the strength of the storage unit 42.
The support unit bottom plate 44D is composed of a support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR and a support unit bottom plate left-side part 44DL. The support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR has almost the same external shape as the storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR of the storage unit 42 and is brought into contact with a lower face side of the storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR. The support unit bottom plate left-side part 44DL has almost the same external shape as the storage unit bottom plate left-side part 42DL of the storage unit 42 and is brought into contact with a lower face side of the storage unit bottom plate left-side part 42DL.
In the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR, a support unit bottom face opening portion 44Da having a rectangular shape long in the leftward/rightward direction in the plan view is punched over the upper face to the lower face of the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR. The support unit bottom face opening portion 44Da as an opening portion is positioned on a slight right side of the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR, has a length in the leftward/rightward direction that is about a half of the length of the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR in the leftward/rightward direction, and has a length in the forward/backward direction that is about a half of the length of the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR in the forward/backward direction. In this way, by punching the support unit bottom face opening portion 44Da having an area that is about ¼ of the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR in the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR, the support unit 44 exposes a part of the storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR in which foreign materials FS are stored to the lower face side of the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR through the support unit bottom face opening portion 44Da while maintaining the strength of the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR. In accordance with this, the foreign material storage unit 40 causes foreign materials FS stored in the transparent storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR to be visually recognizable from the lower face side of the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR through the support unit bottom face opening portion 44Da.
In addition, in a place of the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR that faces the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI of the storage unit 42, the insertion part storage holding part 44DI as a storage holding part is formed. In the case of a normal operation of the coin processing device 10, the support unit 44 locks the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI of the storage unit 42 using the insertion part storage holding part 44DI, thereby forming a storage unit closed state. On the other hand, in a case in which a maintenance operation is performed, the support unit 44 excludes the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI of the storage unit 42 from the insertion part storage holding part 44DI, and a storage unit open state is formed.
The support unit right-side plate 44R is disposed along the vertical direction and is bent from the right end of the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR in an upward direction at right angles to the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR. The support unit left-side plate 44L is disposed along the vertical direction and is bent from the left end of the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR in an upward direction at right angles to the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR. This support unit left-side plate 44L has almost the same external shape as the storage unit inner-side left plate 42LR of the storage unit 42 and is brought into contact with the left face side of the storage unit inner-side left plate 42LR.
The support unit front-side plate 44F is disposed along the vertical direction and is bent from the right side of the front end of the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR in the upward direction at right angles to the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR. This support unit front-side plate 44F has a length in the upward/downward direction that is slightly shorter than the storage unit front-side plate lower side part 42FD of the storage unit 42 and has a length in the leftward/rightward direction that is about a half of the length of the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR in the leftward/rightward direction. In addition, the support unit front-side plate 44F is brought into contact with the front face side of the storage unit front-side plate lower side part 42FD of the storage unit 42.
A lower face of a double-sided tape 46 having a rectangular shape is attached to both ends including left and right ends of the storage unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR and a left end of the support unit bottom plate left-side part 44DL. The storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR and the storage unit bottom plate left-side part 42DL of the storage unit 42 are attached to an upper face of this double-sided tape 46. For this reason, the storage unit 42 is attached and fixed to the upper side of the support unit 44 using the double-sided tape 46.
As illustrated in
When foreign materials FS stored in the foreign material storage unit 40 are to be eliminated, a maintenance staff, first, rotates the customer service unit 36 from the customer service unit closed state illustrated in
Subsequently, by picking and moving the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI of the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part 42BL of the storage unit 42 to the rear side with fingers, the maintenance staff excludes the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI from the insertion part storage holding part 44DI. Furthermore, by further picking and moving the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI to the rear side with fingers, the maintenance staff rotates the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part 42BL around the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing shaft 42BLa as an opening/closing shaft to be in the storage unit open state illustrated in
In the coin processing device 10 of the configuration described above, the foreign material storage unit 40 is disposed to be more adjacent to the rear side that is a side on which shutter 13B is positioned in the shutter-open state in the container 13A than the container 13A. For this reason, the coin processing device 10 can store foreign materials FS that have entered the shutter housing part gap SP or the sensor hole portion 38 from the coin integration space 13C using the foreign material storage unit 40. In accordance with this, by preventing foreign materials FS from entering each part of the inside of the coin processing device 10, the coin processing device 10 prevents occurrence of a factor for miscalculation and a load on the drive unit, thereby being able to improve reliability.
In addition, in the coin processing device 10, the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI of the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part 42BL that is a part of the wall part of the storage unit 42 is configured to be attachable/detachable to/from the insertion part storage holding part 44DI. For this reason, without pressing a maintenance staff to perform a complicated operation of detaching the entire storage unit 42 from the support unit 44, only by causing the storage unit open state by excluding the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI of the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part 42BL from the insertion part storage holding part 44DI, the coin processing device 10 allows a maintenance staff to eliminate foreign materials FS stored in the foreign material storage space 42S through a space into which the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part 42BL is saved. In accordance with this, the coin processing device 10 allows a maintenance staff to easily recover foreign materials FS and is able to improve the operability of elimination of foreign materials.
Furthermore, the coin processing device 10 configures the storage unit 42 of the foreign material storage unit 40 using a transparent member. For this reason, the foreign material storage unit 40 can form the foreign material storage space 42S of the storage unit 42 to be visible from the outside of the storage unit 42 and thus is able to cause foreign materials FS stored in the storage unit 42 to be visible from the outside of the storage unit 42.
Furthermore, in the coin processing device 10, the support unit bottom face opening portion 44Da is configured to be punched in the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR facing the storage unit bottom plate right-side part 42DR of the storage unit 42 in the support unit 44. For this reason, the foreign material storage unit 40 can form the foreign material storage space 42S of the storage unit 42 to be visible from the outside of the storage unit 42 in a direction of arrow AR1 through the support unit bottom face opening portion 44Da as illustrated in
According to the configuration described above, the coin processing device 10 includes the depositing/dispensing unit 13 that has the container 13A as a feeding unit into which coins as media are put and the shutter 13B opening or closing the container 13A and the foreign material storage unit 40 that is disposed on a side opposite to the container 13A with the housing part inside/outside communication space 48 as a gap formed in the depositing/dispensing unit 13 therebetween and stores foreign materials FS that have entered from the housing part inside/outside communication space 48. In accordance with this, the coin processing device 10 can store foreign materials FS that have entered from the coin integration space 13C to the housing part inside/outside communication space 48 using the foreign material storage unit 40 and can prevent the foreign materials FS from entering each unit of the inside of the coin processing device 10.
As illustrated in
Although the storage unit 142 is different from the storage unit 42 in that it includes a storage unit rear-side plate 142B in place of the storage unit rear-side plate 42B and a storage unit bottom plate 142D in place of the storage unit bottom plate 42D, other points are similarly configured. The storage unit rear-side plate 142B, in which the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part 42BL is not disposed, can rotate clockwise and counterclockwise when viewed from the right side face with respect to the storage unit bottom plate 142D around a storage unit rear-side plate bottom plate connection part 42Bax that is a connection part between the storage unit rear-side plate 142B and the storage unit bottom plate 142D as an axis with respect to the storage unit rear-side plate 142B.
In the storage unit 142, the storage unit rear-side plate bottom plate connection part 42Bax is connected to a coin processing device casing 11 that is a place other than a customer service unit 36 that does not move together with the customer service unit 36 at the time of transition between a customer service unit closed state and a customer service unit open state using a link mechanism (not illustrated). This storage unit 142 has a shape similar to the storage unit 42 (
In the storage unit 42 described above, the entire storage unit 42 is not transformed in accordance with rotation of the customer service unit 36 and rotates with the customer service unit 36. In contrast to this, in the storage unit 142, in accordance with rotation of the customer service unit 36, although a storage unit front-side plate 42F and a storage unit bottom plate 142D rotate together with the customer service unit 36, the storage unit rear-side plate 142B does not rotate together with the customer service unit 36 and largely exposes and opens the foreign material storage space 42S to the outside.
For this reason, compared to the foreign material storage unit 40, only by rotating the customer service unit 36, the storage unit rear-side plate 142B rotates with respect to the storage unit bottom plate 142D and exposes the rear side face of the foreign material storage space 42S, and accordingly, the foreign material storage unit 140 enables foreign materials FS stored in the storage unit 142 to be visible from the outside of the storage unit 142 and can recover the foreign materials FS without causing a maintenance staff to perform operations of opening and closing the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part 42BL.
When foreign materials FS stored in the foreign material storage unit 140 are to be eliminated, first, by rotating the customer service unit 36 from a customer service unit closed state illustrated in
In the configuration described above, by linking opening/closing of the storage unit rear-side plate 142B with an opening/closing operation of the customer service unit 36, the storage unit 142 is configured to rotate with respect to the storage unit bottom plate 142D such that, when the customer service unit 36 rotates from the customer service unit closed state to the customer service unit open state, the storage unit rear-side plate 142B is separated away from the foreign material storage space 42S by being pulled in accordance with rotation of the customer service unit 36.
For this reason, only by causing a maintenance staff to perform an operation of rotating the customer service unit 36 from the customer service unit closed state to the customer service unit open state, which is an operation essentially necessary at the time of accessing the foreign material storage unit 140, the storage unit 142 can enable foreign materials FS stored in the storage unit 142 to be visible from the outside of the storage unit 142 by exposing the rear side face of the foreign material storage space 42S and recover the foreign materials FS.
In accordance with this, compared with the coin processing device 10, the storage unit 142 can further improve the visibility of foreign materials FS disposed inside of the foreign material storage unit 140 from the outside and further improve a degree of easiness in recovery of the foreign materials FS.
Also for the other points, the foreign material storage unit 140 can have operations and effects similar to those of the foreign material storage unit 40.
In addition, in the embodiment described above, a case in which the storage unit 42 is configured using Mylar (registered trademark) has been described. The present invention is not limited thereto, and the storage unit 42 may be configured using other various materials.
Furthermore, in the embodiment described above, a case in which the entire storage unit 42 is configured using Mylar (registered trademark) that is a transparent resin film has been described. The present invention is not limited thereto, and at least a part of the storage unit 42 may not be transparent. In such a case, in order to allow the foreign material storage space 42S to be visible through the support unit bottom face opening portion 44Da, particularly, it is preferable that the storage unit bottom plate 42D be transparent.
In addition, in the embodiment described above, a case in which foreign materials FS are stored by the storage unit 42, and the storage unit 42 is supported by the support unit 44 has been described. The present invention is not limited thereto, and when the strength of the support unit 44 can be maintained by forming the support unit 44 using molding, for example, transparent plastic or the like, the support unit 44 may be omitted.
Furthermore, in the embodiment described above, a case in which one set of the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI and the insertion part storage holding part 44DI are formed in each of the storage unit 42 and the support unit 44 has been described. The present invention is not limited thereto, and two sets of the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI and the insertion part storage holding part 44DI may be formed in each of the storage unit 42 and the support unit 44, and a wall part between the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI of one set and the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part inserting part 42BLI of the other set in the storage unit 42 may be configured to be attachable/detachable to/from the support unit 44.
In addition, in the embodiment described above, a case in which the storage unit rear-side plate opening/closing part 42BL is formed in a part of the storage unit rear-side plate 42B that is a part of the wall part of the storage unit 42 has been described. The present invention is not limited thereto, and an opening/closing unit that exposes the foreign material storage space 42S to the outside may be formed in the storage unit bottom plate 42D.
Furthermore, in the embodiment described above, a case in which the support unit bottom face opening portion 44Da is punched in the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR has been described. The present invention is not limited thereto, and an opening portion may be formed using various methods, for example, bending of a part of the support unit bottom plate right-side part 44DR or the like.
In addition, in the embodiment described above, a case in which the support unit bottom face opening portion 44Da is formed in a rectangular shape that is long in a leftward/rightward direction in the plan view has been described. The present invention is not limited thereto, and the support unit bottom face opening portion 44Da may be in various shapes such as a triangular shape, a square shape, a circular shape, an oval shape, and the like in the plan view.
Furthermore, in the embodiment described above, a case in which the customer service unit 36 transitions between the customer service unit closed state and the customer service unit open state through rotation has been described. The present invention is not limited thereto, the customer service unit 36 may transition between the customer service unit closed state and the customer service unit open state by moving in various types such as sliding movement.
In addition, in the embodiment described above, a case in which the present invention is applied to the foreign material storage unit 40 storing foreign materials FS that have entered the shutter housing part gap SP that is a gap between the container 13A and the shutter 13B and the sensor hole portion 38 formed in the container 13A has been described. The present invention is not limited thereto, and the present invention may be applied to other various places in which an essential gap is present, for example, a stacker that has a sensor hole portion and a conveyance path and integrates coins for each type of coins, and the like.
Furthermore, in the embodiment described above, a case in which the present invention is applied to the foreign material storage unit 40 built in the coin processing device 10 of the automatic teller machine 1 (
In addition, the present invention is not limited to each embodiment and the other embodiments described above. In other words, an application range of the present invention is applied also to an embodiment in which each embodiment described above and a part or the whole of the another embodiment described above are arbitrarily combined and an embodiment in which a part thereof is extracted.
Furthermore, in the embodiment described above, a case in which the coin processing device 10 as a medium processing device is composed of the depositing/dispensing unit 13 as a depositing/dispensing unit and the foreign material storage unit 40 as a foreign material storage unit has been described. The present invention is not limited thereto, and the coin processing device may be composed of a depositing/dispensing unit and a foreign material storage unit formed to have other various configurations.
The present invention, for example, can be used in an automatic teller machine performing a transaction process relating to coins with a user and the like.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 2020-098894 | Jun 2020 | JP | national |
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| PCT/JP2021/016149 | 4/21/2021 | WO |
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| WO2021/246071 | 12/9/2021 | WO | A |
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